Learning the Fifth Declension

This chart presents the distinct forms possible for the fifth declension. It is very helpful to know which forms are unambiguously a particular case, and which must be decided by context. For fifth declension nouns, one form is triply ambiguous (-ês), and two forms are doubly ambiguous (-eî, -êbus):

Practice arriving at the Latin equivalents of the following until you can do so instantaneously and effortlessly. Conventions: (s) = "as subject", or "in the nominative case" (o) = "as the typical form used for the direct object", or "in the accusative case"